NetChoice filed a brief on Tuesday asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to side with a district court’s previous ruling and block the Utah attorney general from enforcing a law regulating social media and minors on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
Mississippi’s age-verification law violates the First Amendment in part because it requires the collection of personally identifying information and in turn “chills speech,” NetChoice argued Friday in a reply brief seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction (see 2505200017).
The Mississippi attorney general fired back Monday against NetChoice, opposing motions for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against a law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors to have accounts, and limit the content minors are exposed to on the platforms.
The Texas House provided overwhelming support for a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages and seek parental consent. Members supported SB-2420 in a 132-10 vote Thursday and then passed the bill on a final reading Friday.
Florida and 18 other state enforcers, plus the Arizona state legislature, supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in asking a federal appeals court to remove a preliminary injunction on his state's age-verification law.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi granted NetChoice’s unopposed motion Friday and lifted the stay of proceedings in a case over a Mississippi age-verification law for social media.
NetChoice filed an amended complaint Friday against Mississippi over an age-verification law in a case that was recently remanded to the district court by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A disconnect exists between legislatures, the privacy laws they create and the litigation that results from them, said panelists during a Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) event on privacy litigation trends Thursday. Instead, this ecosystem results in great confusion, prompting a rise in privacy law-related cases, they said.
Tennessee's attorney general told a federal district court Thursday that a case about an Ohio law requiring age verification is wrong and dissimilar from one before it concerning a Tennessee age-verification law. AG Jonathan Skrmetti (R) urged the court to ignore the decision in NetChoice v. Yost and deny a preliminary injunction against his state's law.
NetChoice sued Georgia on Thursday over a 2024 law aimed at protecting kids on social media, alleging it violates the First Amendment and poses digital safety and security risks.